Image shows book cover for review; an observatory is silhouetted at the bottom in a green field, with an orange glow above and behind it. Above is a dark blue sky, with lighter lines whirling across it. In the middle at the top, a bright orb shoots across. Between this and the observatory is the title 'The Others'.
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The Others | Book Review

Written by Sarah Merrett, illustrated by Ewa Beniak-Haremska (pub. Everything With Words, 2024)

‘There!’ Grandma’s face lit up. ‘Tell me you heard that!’ She ran to the machine and flung herself in the chair.

Reuben’s limbs locked tight. He stared, his mind running wild. The machine had never made a sound like it. He knew it wasn’t from this world.

He listened, waiting, holding his breath.

The machine remained silent, but he knew those few strange sounds had changed everything.

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The Closest Thing to Flying | Book Review

By Gill Lewis (published by Oxford University Press)

Semira looked behind her as if she felt someone was watching her. A diary was personal wasn’t it? Private?

But surely if it had been written over a hundred years ago, the writer of the diary would be dead by now.

It wouldn’t matter if she read some of it.

Would it?

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